avantage
French, noun
avantage is spelled A-V-A-N-T-A-G-E (8 letters) and appears 50 times per million words in written French, the 1,660th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Avantage is a French masculine noun meaning “advantage (advantageous position)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, avantagé is a different word: “past participle of avantager”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Utilité ; profit ; faveur ; bénéfice. Conséquence positive que l'on peut subir d'un acte ou d'une situation”.
What does avantage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineadvantage (advantageous position)
- 2
masculineadvantage
verb
- 1
past participle of avantager
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Utilité ; profit ; faveur ; bénéfice. Conséquence positive que l'on peut subir d'un acte ou d'une situation. 2. Supériorité ; dessus. 3. Succès militaire, victoire. 4. Gain, point que marque un joueur après avoir été, auparavant, à égalité.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of avantage
- avantages plural
- avantagée feminine
- avantagés masculine plural
- avantagées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to avantage
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is avantage in French?
avantage appears 50 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).